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Office Printer drop-down order

When I'm in Office (Word, Excel, etc.) and i want to print something, I go to FILE -> PRINT and then select the Printer drop-down list so I can find a printer to print my job.  Can someone explain what order the printers are listed in, and if/how they can be modified?  I have certain printers I would like closer to the top and others near the bottom.  I do not see a way to manipulate the order. 
Looking at the list here, they are in alphabetical order.  I think that you should be able to rename the printers by inserting the appropriate letter of the alphabet before the present name and thus get them in the order that you want.
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Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)
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Thanks Doug, unfortunately these are network printers so we can't rename them locally.

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Actually, you can.

While the printer is networked, the printer driver is installed locally. So you can custom name the driver when it is being installed.  Now the trick is, how do you force the network driver to re-install and give you the option of changing the name...
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